Helen Lester's 'Three Cheers For Tacky'

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplish.” Living in a world where education is one of the few and important keys to live a brighter future, We consider ourselves to be on the right track, but what about those among us that can’t simply catch up to us as easily as the honor students? After looking into Helen Lester’s children’s book, “Three Cheers for Tacky”, one can see the author’s view on how society reacts to slow and clumsy people, or “Tackys”, which is important because, people need to treat others better and fairly. In “Three Cheers for Tacky”, there were 7 penguins, 6 of which had names describing their perfect nature (Lovely, Neatly, Perfect, etc.), and the other penguin was named Tacky, who is extremely clumsy, and is slow to understand certain concepts. Throughout the story, the perfect penguins would get frustrated with Tacky whenever he doesn’t get the cheer right, messes it up. The parallel between the story and today’s time can be seen, if you consider the school’s situation. People tend to be frustrated easily whenever someone doesn’t “understand” or follow up at the same

The judges loved the difference compared to other contestants. Reading this reminded me a time in 41 A.D, the Roman Emperor recently died and a mob started assassinating the royal roman officials, in fear of another Roman ruler. After many lives lost, the mob also died off, leaving only one royal Roman left alive. His name was Claudis, and he was only alive because, since he had a slight limp on his step and deafness in his right ear, he wasn’t perceived as a threat. Claudis then lived on as to being one of the most successful emperors in history. What both the Tacky and the Claudis story have in common is that both the heroes have a disability, that worked in their favor in the